Match 22

First impression: “I would love to last at least one round in the tournament so to all my readers who read and like my thoughts, please vote for me. I would be humbled and honoured by your support. I do the best I can for this blog and I hope to take it further in the future with everyone’s support.”

If you ask me how I feel about being an otaku, the emotion that comes to mind first is shame. I have never been proud of my status as an otaku. I view it as a vice, a guilty pleasure that I indulge in when no one else is around. An otaku is an abnormality. One can’t be “otaku” and “normal” at the same time. Being an otaku is the exact opposite of being normal.

Then he goes on and on to talk about how otaku are creepy and how he hates himself and all anime fans. Dude, are you sure you aren’t just clinically depressed to the tenth degree? It’s not anime fans that aren’t normal; it’s you. It’s cool that you’re willing to discuss your emotions with others, but you need help more than you need my vote.

A post about… nothing really. It appears the gist of the argument is “Game -> anime adaptations sometimes suck. I want to watch Tales of the Abyss but it might suck. Article over.” Come on. At least watch the show and then report back to whether you were right or not. Otherwise we just get… fluff.

Overall rating: Fluffy.

Note: Remember my “Why I Fansub” song? Of course you don’t; don’t lie to me. Anyway, I made it for this AnimeViking guy (Marow) to put on his site for that fansubber series. Youtube recommended that I should watch the Pomf song after that. So I watched that shit, orgasmed, and figured you would like it too. Well, was I right? Don’t even answer that. I was totally right.

Match 23

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So, the thing is, CSW got disqualified for apparently rigging the vote and getting 243 votes in a half hour.

Now, they claim to be a big blog with 10,000 daily views on average. To put this in perspective, we get around 2,000 less than that per day. If this is true, and they did organize some kind of chat channel where they all hung out and were all “Hey, let’s all throw our votes in immediately for big impact! It’ll be kawaii no fun desu!” then the result would make sense.

However, if they really are that big, why don’t they get any comments? Of the five posts on their main page, three have no comments, one has one comment, and another has seven comments, which is their “Vote for us!” Aniblog one.

Does Whiners have an insanely active community for its traffic count or did they mistake their weekly views for their daily views? Either way, the tourney organizers felt something was up and shut down the poll immediately. If it ended there and CSW explained their case nice and sane-like, then I’m sure everything would have smoothed over by now. Unfortunately, CSW is run by anime fans.

You want to go there? With English, the language that loves to pull in words from all over the place and started as a bastard hybrid fusion of German, Latin and later had some Norse and then French mixed in? OK, how about rendezvous, buffalo, corps, kudos, or moose? It’s true most stuff follows the rules, but English is fun in part because there’s exceptions for absolutely everything. We have words that don’t even have a “singular”, words where the singular and plural are spelled entirely differently, etc. Lots of the exceptions are specifically loaner words that retained their foreign rules (seraph/seraphim, die/dice, schema/schemata, etc etc).

Also, to take the simple path here, “anime” is in fact now found in a number of different dictionaries. None of them use “animes” as the plural (and never seen anyone else either).

“Eye cancer.”
I simply cannot understand how people justify such terrible background/foreground combos. Websites designed like this: I instantly close the tab and never come back.

“Go check with PollDaddy administrators and you will fucking see 300 different IP addresses across the world.”
Yeah dude, Tor is not hard to figure out. I’ve been waiting for some real drama would unfold. All for e-peen, huh?

These posts are putting me off wanting to start an anime review site D:.

Also, D_S, this is a random question, but do you listen to Manga Pulse? They do manga reviews (sort of), and are pretty funny. They seem like they’d be up your alley. They make fun of all the clichès found in manga and their humour sort of reminds me of yours.

I think the takeaway from these sites is that if you ONLY do anime reviews, your site’s gonna be pretty boring. However, they do help your site keep current because they’re easy to write (relatively). If you also do editorials, then you give yourself a chance to build up a quality audience. And if you have some kind of “catch” that makes you unique (think about what else you’re passionate about and see if you can incorporate that somehow into your site), you can also get an audience by filling in a niche. Overall, if you think you can do a good job, then just do it and see what happens.

As for Manga Pulse, I’m not really a big fan of podcasts. However, I’ll put it on in the background as I’m working today (I hate it when my job spills over into the weekend).

10000 views daily without getting a whole lot of comments I can buy – the amount of comments you get depends a lot more on what kind of an audience you attract, and how much your articles open for comments, rather than how many visitors there are (and blogs that get a steady stream of comments usually have the same handful of people commenting a lot, which you can also see here)

243 votes in 36 minutes, though? With 10000 daily views, that’s roughly 400 views an hour… so that would mean more or less every single visitor to their blog in the time period the voting was open ran off and voted for it straight away. That’s… kinda hard to believe.

Careful with the difference between views and viewers here – ten-thousand views can be gotten quite easily if people refresh their browser often enough.
Ten-thousand unique viewers are much harder to get.

Either way, a vote influx like that is highly unlikely if you didn’t start a week in advance to post every three hours about it so people will actually show up when it happens.

I’m making an effort to bring it down a bit, yes. I go full bore on my fellow fansubbers because I know they can handle it and are able to understand I don’t really mean it when I say “Because you forgot a period here, I want you cut open your belly and shove your entrails into a blender.” No harm done besides sore feelings.

These anibloggers? There are too many of them to get a good read on and it seems like a number of them have extremely low opinions of themselves. I was writing these posts entirely for the Whiners audience at first, but when I realized that these anibloggers (god I hate that word) were also reading my opinions of them and that they may not understand my style of writing (or even take it 100% seriously), I decided to tone down the personal attacks.

tl;dr – “In August 2011, German food critic and author Wolfgang Fassbender wrote in a major Swiss newspaper, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, that ‘the biggest challenge when eating surströmming is to vomit only after the first bite, as opposed to before.'”

Dark_Sage: confirmed for good person. At least today was a step up from Day 5, what the hell was that. So yeah, Day 6 down, only… jesus that is a terrifyingly large number to go. Are you actually doing all of those? Your sacrifice of sanity is appreciated.